''Eolorica'' is a fossilized
loriciferan
Loricifera (from Latin, '' lorica'', corselet (armour) + ''ferre'', to bear) is a phylum of very small to microscopic marine cycloneuralian sediment-dwelling animals that had been determined to be 37 described species, in 9 genera, ...
from the mid-Cambrian
Deadwood Formation
The Deadwood Formation is a geologic formation of the Williston Basin and Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in parts of North and South Dakota and Montana in the United States, and in parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and southwestern ...
of Saskatchewan, Canada, preserved as a
Small Carbonaceous Fossil
Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) are sub-millimetric organic remains of organisms preserved in sedimentary strata.
This category of fossils has traditionally included robust or thick-walled entities such as plant spores, acritarchs and chitinozoa ...
.
[Harvey, T. H. P. & Butterfield, N. J. Exceptionally preserved Cambrian loriciferans and the early animal invasion of the meiobenthos. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 1, 22 (2017).]
References
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Loricifera